The Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress has said that
with the way Lagos PDP is going, it is doomed to failure as it seems not
to have grasped the rudiments of productive politics in its desperation to
grab power for furthering their well known looting tendency. The party
said that for a party that believes in hauling hollow, laughable and
tendentious gossip to stay alive, the PDP in Lagos seems to have accepted
the fact that it is an irredeemable bad product.
In a release in Lagos, signed by the Lagos State Publicity Secretary of
the APC, Joe Igbokwe, the party said that Lagos PDP’s call for Governor
Ambode to probe former Governor Fashola for some inchoate and laughable
reasons shows that Lagos PDP has lost it and is in a journey of self
derision and ridicule. It says it is not surprised that Lagos PDP
continues to demonstrate traits that show it as a jesting group that has
no meaningful thing to contribute to the growth and progress of Lagos.
“As laughable and childish as PDP’s latest rant is, we dare say that we
are not in the culture of dignifying confused thoughts of a cabal that is
yet to live down their continued horrible fate in the hands of Lagosians.
With the historical defeat of the PDP from the center where they ran
Nigeria to total bankruptcy and near collapse even with very bounteous oil
earning, it is not difficult to locate why Lagos PDP is hit by a gale of
total confusion that finds expression in the inchoate and disoriented
ranting it spews out these days as press statements.
“The achievements in Lagos for the past 16 years of progressive politics
need no repetition here. Lagosians know them and feel them. Nigerians know
these and trumpet it but the woeful losers in Lagos PDP have chosen self
denial in the vain thoughts that this will help their inordinate desire to
corner power in Lagos when they have shown complete failure in the sixteen
years they have misused and abused power in Nigeria. Fact is that for
sixteen years, we have taught PDP a huge lesson in politics and leadership
but they keep playing the ostrich thinking Lagosians are fools that will
fall for their gimmicks. This is why PDP had been failing and will
continue to fail in Lagos.
“Let us recall the sordid events of the last electioneering period, when
out of desperation, the PDP practically relocated to Lagos, where the
former president, Goodluck Jonathan, unleashed billions of illicit dollars
and pound sterlings to buy Lagosians, went and procured hoodlums and touts
of all shades and mobilized them to lay siege on Lagos and the APC with
the hope of conquering Lagos, went and commissioned a very dangerous hate
politics aimed at greatly dividing Lagosians along tribal lines,
commissioned a cache of religious merchants to sell the rotten PDP message
but these not only failed him and PDP woefully in Lagos but failed to
prevent the huge defeat he and PDP suffered in the general elections.
“Now with the center gone, with all compliments of unrestrained federal
funding, looting of SURE-P funds by chieftains of PDP in Lagos, as
elsewhere gone, with federal appointments gone and parastatals that the
Lagos PDP chieftains freely feed from gone, the Lagos PDP in utter
confusion, has resorted to making baseless demands and childish effusions
in the hope to keep their sinking boat afloat but they are struggling in
vain. We would have though that Lagos PDP would, for once, be moved by
moral imperatives to demand that President Muhammadu Buhari probe and
punish the perpetrators of what is becoming the most horrifying economic
crime done to Nigeria by the PDP mandarins especially in the past 16
years. They are not, rather they are asking Governor Ambode to ‘probe’ the
poster regime for productive and accountable governance in this republic.
What a party?
“We want to let the lost and confused parodists in Lagos PDP know that
Governor Ambode has hit the ground running just because he has a rich
template of productive governance to continue with. That Lagos PDP is not
seeing these, which every other Nigerian sees, is not surprising for PDP
has no known ability to recognize good governance anywhere. If it has, it
wouldn’t have wrecked Nigeria in one demolishing spree that an oil rich
country is today cringing on all fours as the treasury has been emptied by
chieftains of PDP, among whom are those that now parade themselves as
chieftains of Lagos PDP.
“We want to assist the Lagos PDP get their acts together. The party is a
bad product and must do away with their unproductive and corrupt leaders
for it to mount any credible opposition to APC. We extend this magnanimous
advice given that we, in Lagos APC, believes a viable opposition will help
point out areas of deficiencies in the governance of Lagos but this has
been missed in PDP’s laughable penchants to bandy puerile gossip,
innuendoes, rumours and all forms of inchoate demands in the name of
opposition. Even as we know that the PDP is doomed nationally, as a result
of its sixteen years unrestrained megalomania, we want to let Lagos PDP
that its fate will get worse in Lagos, as the APC government in the state
perfects its acts of bettering Lagosians for the good of all Lagosians and
the economic benefit of Nigeria.”